15-Minute Strength Workout (Full Body Strength Training, Dumbbells)

How To Do A Goblet Squat And 45-Degree Press Out

1. Stand with your feet slightly wider than shoulder width apart, knees bent. Hold a dumbbell vertically at your chest with hands stacked on top of each other.
2. Sit your hips back as you lower into a squat, aiming to get your thighs parallel to the ground (90-degree bend in your knees). Dumbbell at your chest and elbows inside your knees.
3. Press through your heels to stand tall. As you stand, press the dumbbell out at a 45-degree angle, arms straight.
4. With control, return the dumbbell to your chest to return to the starting position.

How To Do A 45-Degree Dumbbell Press Out

1. Start standing, feet hip width apart, knees bent softly. Hold one dumbbell vertically at your chest with hands stacked on top of each other.
2. Exhale as you press the dumbbell out away from your body at a 45-degree angle, arms fully extended.
3. With control, return the dumbbell to your chest to return to the starting position.

How To Do A Lateral Lunge, Reverse Lunge And Bicep Curl

1. Start standing, feet hip width apart, knees bent. Hold one dumbbell in each hand at your sides (palms facing in towards your hips).
2. Step your left leg out to the side as you push your hips back, bending your left knee while leaving your right leg straight. Think of performing a single leg squat with your left leg while your right leg remains straight. Dumbbells frame left foot with knees and toes pointing forward.
3. Then, drive off your left foot to reverse the movement, pushing back to center.
4. Once standing, step your left leg back into a reverse lunge, dropping your left knee down towards the ground as you lower your hips until both knees reach a 90-degree angle, front thigh parallel to the floor. As you drop your left leg back, curl the dumbbells up to shoulder height (bicep curl).
5. Then squeeze your right leg glute, driving your back, left leg forward as you stand up, returning to starting position. Reverse your dumbbell curl, returning the dumbbells back to the starting position.

How To Do An Isometric Lunge Hold And Hammer Curl

1. Hold a reverse lunge: step your left leg back, dropping your left knee down towards the ground as you lower your hips until both knees reach a 90-degree angle, front thigh parallel to the floor.
2. Hold this position, hovering your back left knee off the ground.
3. Hold one dumbbell in each at hand at your sides, palms facing in towards each other (hammer grip). Curl the dumbbells up towards your shoulders.
4. Then with control, lower back to the starting position. Repeat the hammer curl movement as you hold the lunge position.

Modification: Omit the isometric lunge hold and perform standing hammer curls.

How To Do 2 Sumo Squats And 1 Push Up

1. Stand with feet wider than hips, heels in and toes pointed out (sumo squat stance). Hold one dumbbell in each hand between your legs.
2. Bend your knees to lower down into a squat, pushing your knees out towards your pinky toes as you drop your hips parallel to your knees.
3. Drive through your heels to stand tall. Then perform a second sumo squat.
4. On the second squat, lower the dumbbells all the way down to the mat. Then step or jump your feet back to high plank position.
5. In high plank, place your hands on the dumbbells and engage your core. Create a straight line from head to tailbone.
6. Lower your chest towards the ground, performing a push up on dumbbells. Elbows fall back towards your hips. Exhale as you press back up to high plank.
7. Then step or jump your feet outside of your hands, landing in a low wide squat position (or sumo squat stance) and repeat the sequence.

Modification: Drop to your knees for the push up as needed. Also, option to drop the weights and perform as a bodyweight exercise.

How To Do Push Ups

1. Start in a high plank position with your shoulders stacked over your wrists, weight evenly distributed amongst all 10 fingers. Pull your kneecaps up towards your belly, feet hip-width apart. Option to place your hands on weights if you have wrist pain.
2. Hold this plank position, maintaining a straight line with your body, gaze slightly in front of you.
3. Slowly lower your chest down towards the ground as your elbows fall back towards your hips (not out to the sides).
4. Once at the bottom of your push up, exhale as you push back up into high plank position.

Modification: Drop to your knees for the push up as needed. Or add an incline, placing your hands/dumbbells, on a bench or chair to bring the ground closer to you.

How To Do A Deadlift And Back Row

1. Start standing, feet shoulder-width apart, soft bend in the knees. Hold one dumbbell in each hand (palms facing in).
2. Roll your shoulders down and back to engage your lats (back muscles).
3. Hinge your hips back towards the wall behind you as you lower the dumbbells along the front of your legs. Keeping the dumbbells close to your body (thighs and shins). This is a deadlift.
4. Hold at the bottom of your deadlift, with a flat back and neutral spine.
5. Then squeeze your shoulder blades together to pull the dumbbells up towards your rib cage. This is a back row.
6. Lower the dumbbells with control.
7. Drive through your heels to return to the starting position (standing with the dumbbells at your sides).

How To Do A Plank And Row (Or Standing Bent Over Back Row)

1. Start in high plank position with one hand on each dumbbell (shoulders stacked over hands on dumbbells).
2. Hold this position, maintaining a straight line with your body, gaze slightly in front of you.
3. From this plank position, engage your core as you pull your right elbow back towards your hip, then lower with control back to the mat.
4. Then repeat this row movement on the left side of the body. Maintain the high plank throughout.

Modification: Drop to your knees, performing the rows from your knees. Option to take the rows from a standing, bent over row position.

How To Do Low Plank Wide Knee Pulls

1. Start in a low plank position, forearms on the mat with shoulders stacked over elbows. Think about forming one long line from your head through your heels, engaging your core to make sure your hips don’t pike up or drop down.
2. Pull your right knee to your right elbow or tricep, then return to low plank position.
3. Then pull your left knee to your left elbow or tricep, then return to low plank position.
4. Repeat these alternating knee pulls.

Modification: Hold low plank from the knees or toes. Or add an incline, placing your hands or forearms, on a bench or chair to bring the ground closer to you.